MVC Ticket Question

[Deke3]

Section 114 RowK 1,2,3

[JCPanthers]

Section 114 RowK 1,2,3

Deke...I'll try not to spill any beer on you as we will be right behind you. Row L, Seats 1,2,3,4

[UNIAlum95]

Has anyone scalped for tickets before?

Buying tickets is easy. There are always people selling. Later rounds usually find losing team fans selling off tickets too.

[UnderParPanther]

i posted this on another thread, but last year it cost around $20 a session from a scalper to get into Friday and Saturdays games. I dont know what the championship costs.

[UNIMIS2001]

We got ours. I have to say Im very disappointed with where they put us. We put our order in for the tickets the first week they were available and we are still sitting in the upper deck. I guess the university went by the same system they used to pick season ticket seats for McCloud Center. That is, they went by the number of points earned through donations and the such.

Guess since I know I wont be giving 10k next year, I wont be going next year. Knowing no matter how soon I put my order in, I will still be upper deck.

If no one has sat in the corner of the upper deck. The players are pretty tiny from that far away.

My wife and I will be up there with you on the upper deck, what a scam job by our ticket office. They told me every time I talked to them that it was a 'first come first serve' process, what a load BS. It is nice to know that UNI treats us like second place fans just because we don't give a bunch of money. I mean cmon, does anyone else see all of the empty seats down low and in the middle of the Mcleod center? On the other hand my wife and I have season tickets and drive from Des Moines to every game whereas the people that get the best seats don't even use them!!!! What, they couldn't make the trip from Cedar Falls or Waterloo. Give me a break! I may not buy season tickets again.

[JCPanthers]

My wife and I will be up there with you on the upper deck, what a scam job by our ticket office. They told me every time I talked to them that it was a 'first come first serve' process, what a load BS. It is nice to know that UNI treats us like second place fans just because we don't give a bunch of money. I mean cmon, does anyone else see all of the empty seats down low and in the middle of the Mcleod center, give me a my wife and I have season tickets and drive from Des Moines to every game and the people that get the best seats don't even use them!!!! What, they couldn't make the trip from Cedar Falls or Waterloo. Give me a break! I will be the last time a buy season tickets!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!

I can guarantee you that this had NOTHING to do with our ticket office. It was the fault of the Valley's distribution process and the way they distributed the tickets to each of the schools. For the first time the Valley ticket office only gave UNI 250 Lower Bowl tickets while at the same time SIU, WSU and CU received more. UNI sold almost 500 tickets and the rest were forced BY THE VALLEY to the upper deck. Believe me that the powers that be are PISSED about this and will be taking this up at a meeting in St. Louis on Thursday.

Bottom line, the Valley is catering to the teams that buy the most all session tickets and giving those teams the majority of the lower bowl seats.....while screwing the teams like UNI that have to travel farther and therefore don't purchase as many.

[JCPanthers]

...and another thing, the distribution of tournament tickets have NEVER been first come first serve. I'm sorry, but there has always been a priority system in place and I think that it is only fair.

[Deke3]

Deke...I'll try not to spill any beer on you as we will be right behind you. Row L, Seats 1,2,3,4

AH!!! Should be fun! As far as the beer goes...I will bring a sponge to try and save as much beer as possible...prices are sky-high (not to mention it BUD, GAH)! Where are you staying JC?

[JCPanthers]

AH!!! Should be fun! As far as the beer goes...I will bring a sponge to try and save as much beer as possible...prices are sky-high (not to mention it BUD, GAH)! Where are you staying JC?

We'll be at the Adams Mark....getting in around 9:30 Thursday night.

[Deke3]

Get the place nice and warmed up as we won't arrive until 12:30 Friday afternoon. See you there!

[Panthers to the Bone]

I think those that have a beef with the UNI ticket office about the MVC tourney need to read what JC said in the top two posts on this page. It was the MVC office that raked us over the coals...not UNI's ticket office. From what I hear, the MVC will be getting an earful from UNI. There are advocates out there to represent the voice of the fan, even though we don't always know it.

[Pantherwoman]

The Panthers will have strong voices at the MVC ticket table next week.
The inequities have been pointed out by UNI and acknowledged by Valley officials...the meeting is a starting point to get us started off on the right foot for next year.

[Panther'73]

We'll be arriving @ the Adams Mark around 2 PM Thursday!
GO PANTHERS!!!!!

[panther2317]

We're hoping to leave Cedar Rapids around 10:00 AM Thursday morning. I think it's 5 1/2 hours from there. So...sometime around 3:30 PM we should be getting to St. Louis.

[oldcat]

"Will be taken care of next year".............................the damage is already done. Not everyone affected will be reading this. It's going to affect not only tourney purchases, but season ticket sales for next year. With the crowds we were getting, this doesn't make any sense! Didn't anyone have a clue this was going on any earlier than this?

In previous years, didn't they make each school buy a certain amount of tickets and expect the school to sell them............it they didn't, the school was stuck with the tickets plus the cost? If the Valley is so worried about sales, why didn't they give equal allotments and have each school give back what's not sold and then divvy them up?

I'm having a real difficult time understanding why it got to where it's at....................